From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ed45459060d00f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Ada jobs & Programming: Art or Science? [was: MN] Date: 1999/02/17 Message-ID: <7ad7bv$sf9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 445147187 References: <79scn2$k04@drn.newsguy.com> <36c25c45.0@news.pacifier.com> <79v9f4$fe$1@remarq.com> <79vd9b$45k$1@remarQ.com> <7a1eir$6oe$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36C8A705.597D432A@planet8.tds-eagan.lmco.com> <7aablt$qqt@drn.newsguy.com> <36C99BDF.BF0FA38F@mediaone.net> <7acbfk$c0t@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x1.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Feb 17 01:52:02 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7acbfk$c0t@drn.newsguy.com>, kevin@nospamworld.com wrote: > In article <36C99BDF.BF0FA38F@mediaone.net>, Alan says... > > >not nearly the most important part of developing > >software. > >Experience has shown (and I recommend you to Brooks' > >_The Mythical Man-Month_) > >that the best coders cannot write reliable software if > >there is a bad > > architecture or design, and > > Well, offcourse the software will be bad if the design is > bad. (do you need > to read a book to know that?) Kevin, I hope you are not saying here that you have never read "The Mythical Man-Month". This should be required reading for everyone in the field, and if you have not read it, I strongly recommend you do, I think you will find it informative and fun :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own